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authorThomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>2006-11-10 14:10:15 -0800
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@sunset.davemloft.net>2006-12-02 21:22:11 -0800
commit339bf98ffc6a8d8eb16fc532ac57ffbced2f8a68 (patch)
tree499ad948863d2753ca10283dcf006ad28954538e /net/netlink
parenta94f723d595ee085f81b1788d18e031af7eeba91 (diff)
downloadlinux-339bf98ffc6a8d8eb16fc532ac57ffbced2f8a68.tar.gz
[NETLINK]: Do precise netlink message allocations where possible
Account for the netlink message header size directly in nlmsg_new()
instead of relying on the caller calculate it correctly.

Replaces error handling of message construction functions when
constructing notifications with bug traps since a failure implies
a bug in calculating the size of the skb.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Acked-by: Paul Moore <paul.moore@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/netlink')
-rw-r--r--net/netlink/af_netlink.c13
-rw-r--r--net/netlink/genetlink.c2
2 files changed, 7 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/net/netlink/af_netlink.c b/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
index d527c8977b1f..f61d81b3c61c 100644
--- a/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
+++ b/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
@@ -1148,7 +1148,7 @@ static int netlink_sendmsg(struct kiocb *kiocb, struct socket *sock,
 	if (len > sk->sk_sndbuf - 32)
 		goto out;
 	err = -ENOBUFS;
-	skb = nlmsg_new(len, GFP_KERNEL);
+	skb = alloc_skb(len, GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (skb==NULL)
 		goto out;
 
@@ -1435,14 +1435,13 @@ void netlink_ack(struct sk_buff *in_skb, struct nlmsghdr *nlh, int err)
 	struct sk_buff *skb;
 	struct nlmsghdr *rep;
 	struct nlmsgerr *errmsg;
-	int size;
+	size_t payload = sizeof(*errmsg);
 
-	if (err == 0)
-		size = nlmsg_total_size(sizeof(*errmsg));
-	else
-		size = nlmsg_total_size(sizeof(*errmsg) + nlmsg_len(nlh));
+	/* error messages get the original request appened */
+	if (err)
+		payload += nlmsg_len(nlh);
 
-	skb = nlmsg_new(size, GFP_KERNEL);
+	skb = nlmsg_new(payload, GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!skb) {
 		struct sock *sk;
 
diff --git a/net/netlink/genetlink.c b/net/netlink/genetlink.c
index 49bc2db7982b..70d60c818897 100644
--- a/net/netlink/genetlink.c
+++ b/net/netlink/genetlink.c
@@ -480,7 +480,7 @@ static struct sk_buff *ctrl_build_msg(struct genl_family *family, u32 pid,
 	struct sk_buff *skb;
 	int err;
 
-	skb = nlmsg_new(NLMSG_GOODSIZE, GFP_KERNEL);
+	skb = nlmsg_new(NLMSG_DEFAULT_SIZE, GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (skb == NULL)
 		return ERR_PTR(-ENOBUFS);